A
adaptability (of Indians), 14,
124
antislavery cause (1850), 71
atomic weapon testing, 104 B
Battle of Point Pleasant, 36
betrayal (of Indians by British), 42,
45
Bierstadt, Albert, 86,
88
biotic transoceanic migration, 15
C
capital and labor battles, 77
Centralia, Washington, 96
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 70
communal landholdings, 123
condemnation (of Mormons), 70
Confederation of Ohio Indians, 31
consolidated monarchies, 13
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 18,
20
cultural productions, 110
cultural purification, 33–34
cultural renaissance, 122
cultural revolution, 16–17
D
Dawes General Allotment Act (1887), 66–67
demographic changes, 105–7
E
economic development, 76–77
English colonization, 19–20
environmental challenges, 82–84
Executive Order 9066, 101,
115
F
family preference rule, 105–6
first impressions (of Indians by Europeans), 16–17
Forest Reserve Act (1891), 88
Forest Service, US, 88,
90
Four Corners region, 10,
11
French and Indian War, 32
G
Gasden Purchase (1853), 124
Gateway Arch (St. Louis), 3,
109
geographic depictions, 29
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), 98
The Great Train Robbery, 110
gunfight at OK Corral, 74–76
H
Hetch Hetchy Valley, 91–93
historical presentations, 118–20
Homestead Act (1862), 79,
82
I
Immigration Reform Act (1965), 94,
105
Indian renaissance, 33–34
Indian reservations, 121f,
123
Indians, 11–12,
71,
112,
121,
125.
See also specific tribes
American society and, 65–67
boarding schools and, 65,
68
cultural revolution and, 16–17
English colonies and, 19–20
European colonialism and, 120
traditional life of, 60,
65
International Workers of the World (IWW), 96
Interstate Highway Act (1956), 105
J
Jeffersonian persuasion, 42–45
K
L
Little Big Horn (1876), 65
Louisiana Purchase, 32,
43
Louisiana territory, 43,
48,
50 M
Man and Nature (Marsh), 84
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1
Mexico, 52,
55–56,
96
economic difficulty in, 54
political instability of, 54
mobility (of Indians), 13,
14
Mountain Meadows, Utah, 58
multiethnic neighborhoods, 125
My Western Home (Higley), 118 N
National Bureau of Reclamation, 78
National Origins Act (1924), 97
native trading routes, 17
O
P
People v. Hall (1854), 69
Phelps Dodge Corporation, 96
political instability, 54
post–World War II American West, 104–5
precious metals. See gold
precolonial American history, 8
precolonial development, 14
Pueblo revolt (1680), 22–23
R
restrictive covenants, 103,
114
Roosevelt, Franklin, 99,
101
S
Salem, Massachusetts, 15,
23,
29
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 15,
23,
30
Seattle, Washington, 101–2
St. Louis, Missouri, 3,
109
stock market collapse (1929), 97
T
Taylor Grazing Act (1934), 99
Tombstone, Arizona, 74–75
Transylvania Company, 37–38
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), 56,
62,
72
Treaty of Paris (1763), 33,
39
tribal communalism, 66–67
Turner, Frederick, 86,
119 U
United Nations Genocide Convention, 61
V
W
West
foreign influences and, 94
Great Depression and, 97–99
westward expansion, 44f,
87
women
sexual exploitation of, 22
Y
Yellowstone National Park, 88
Yosemite National Park, 88,
91